Software Engineer, Android - Slack (Senior/Staff)

About the position

Salesforce is looking for an Android Engineer to join the Slack team, where you will work on crafting phenomenal Android applications. You will collaborate with a cross-disciplinary team to enhance the Slack experience on Android, which is used by millions of people weekly. The role requires a strong understanding of Android framework components, mobile engineering experience, and a passion for creating delightful user experiences. You will be responsible for building efficient, performant applications while maintaining a disciplined approach to development, testing, and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the Slack Android app to enhance user experience.
• Collaborate with product teams, designers, and other developers to create a delightful mobile experience.
• Diagnose performance bottlenecks and optimize Java code and view layouts.
• Utilize knowledge of Android API levels to ensure compatibility and performance across devices.
• Implement best practices for concurrency and threading in mobile applications.

Requirements

• At least 7+ years of mobile engineering experience, ideally in a team environment.
• A related technical degree required.
• Experience developing with Kotlin.
• Extensive understanding of Android framework components and their respective lifecycles.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and programming languages.
• Experience working closely with product teams, designers, and other developers.
• Current and detailed knowledge of the capabilities of different Android API levels.
• Experience developing highly performant Java code and view layouts.
• A disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation, and code structure.
• Familiarity with the Android tool ecosystem for development, testing, debugging, and performance benchmarking.
• Excellent understanding of best practices for concurrency and threading.
• A constant desire to improve, learn more, and take things higher.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience using Slack and a keen interest in making it better.
• Experience building design systems to create reusable and scalable components.
• A passion for creating accessible applications.
• A passion for building and maintaining outstanding open source projects or otherwise adding to the Android community.
• Experience with reactive programming (e.g. RXJava).

Benefits

• Wellbeing reimbursement
• Generous parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Fertility benefits